China nuclear-weapons lab extensively used US chips for years despite curbs: Report


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These chips are widely used in data centres and personal computers, and the report suggests that they were acquired from resellers in China. Also Read | How Biden's curbs on chips to China is part of broader effortMany of them were procured as components for computing systems. US has in place restrictions that bar a foreign country from making such purchases that can be used for atomic-weapons research. The CAEP academy was one of the first Chinese institutions to be put on the US blacklist because of its nuclear work. Nuclear experts say that in at least seven of them, there were applications that can be used for maintaining nuclear stockpiles.